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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-16299-9 - The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life Peter Trusler, Patricia Vickers-Rich and Thomas H. Rich Index More information Index Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations Aboriginal culture, 69 monsoon country, 169 Bushman habitations, 207, 212 acid etching (preparation), 97 Australia Post, 67, 83, 193, 200, 206, 214, Bushman rock art, 212 Africa, 148, 265 224–5, 256–7, 295 Bushy-tail Blowout (Wyoming), 193 ‘Agronomic Revolution’, 231 Australian Megafauna philatelic issue, Alcoota, 163, 166, 167–9, 174 258–9, 263, 268, 271, 272, 273, 277, calcite, 108 Alerces National Park, 189, 190, 191, 192 279, 281 Callitris, 96 All about Dinosaurs, 14 Australia’s Dinosaur Era philatelic issue, Cambrian, 219 Allocasuarina, 96 118–19, 124–5, 264 Camens, A., 262, 274 Allosaurus, 120 Creatures of the Slime philatelic issue, 198 Campbell, K., 98–9 Alola Foundation, 285 Philatelic Group, 256–7, 260–3, 265 Capello, M., 184, 188, 193 American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), ‘Australia’s Dinosaur Era’, 124–5 Carey, S., 274 16–17, 27, 164–5 Australian Aboriginal mythology, 165 cassowaries, 92, 148 ammonites, 46 Australian Academy of Sciences, 47 cathartid vultures, 163 anagalids, 56 Australian Dinosaurs stamps, see Australia Post cave art, 265 anhigas, 52 Australian Emperor Dragonfly,141 Central Australia, 54, 59, 84 See also snake birds ‘Australian megafauna’, 67, 258–9 cephalopods, 99, 195 Anhimidae, 169 Australian Museum (Sydney), 66, 82, 98 Ceratodus, 143, 144 Anseranas, 169 Australian Natural History, 88 ‘Cerro los Chivos’, 196 anseriforms, 169 Australian Research Council, 20 Charnia, 219 Antarctic Circle, 108 Australian Research Grants Committee, 24, Charniodiscus, 218, 219 Antarctica, 17, 54, 55, 120, 122, 184, 265 26–7 Chasmatosaurus, 55 ANZAAS (Australia New Zealand Association for Australosphenida, 242 Childs Frick Laboratory, 16, 165 the Advancement of Science), 78, 84 Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, 215, 223, 230 China, 46–7, 54, 64, 65, 67–9, 144, 186, 203, Araucaria araucana, 192 avian relationships, 168 234, 240 araucarian, 187, 188 Cultural Revolution, 46 Archangel’sk, 204, 207 Bacchus Marsh, 24–5, 26, 29, 30, 33, 68, 261 Chinese–English Dictionary and English– Archbold, N., 99 Ballarat Field Naturalists Club, 8 Chinese Dictionary of Paleontology terms, 47, Archer, M., 109–10 Bartholomai, A., 17–18 47–8, 65 Arctic, 209 Benitez, A, 186 Chinsamy, A., 123 Argentina, 82, 183, 189, 190, 191, 192, ‘Beothukus – Newfoundland’, 226 Chubut Province (Patagonia), 182–5, 183, 193, 193–4, 196, 197 Bierstadt, A., 129 196, 197 Arminiheringia, 82 billabong, 111, Chubut River, 184, 188, 197 artistic representations 112–13 Cifelli, R., 242 coloration, 92 binocular depth perception, 43 cultural distortion, 128 bio-illustration, 40 Cimolesta, 56 cultural factors, 132 biomat, 216, 230 Clark, R., 256 emotional element, 72–3 Birds of Australian Gardens, 40, 261 Clarke, A.C., 203 graphic skills, 39 Birds of Prey, 224 Cleeland, C., 80, 88, 96, 106, 117 motion, 74 ‘Bishops’, 252–3 cnidarians, 219 Asa Zoo, 106, 138 ‘Bishops – hypothetical posture studies’, 249 Coccolepis woodwardi, 142 Asia, 265 Bishops whitmorei, 239, 241, 242, 248, 251, Coccosteus cuspidatus, 100 ‘Asian Cainozoic fauna’, 56 252–3 Coffa, F., 52, 200, 203 Atlascopcosaurus, 124–5 Bock, W., 149, 164–5 collagen, 149, 154 Attenborough, D., 211 borhyaenid marsupial, 82 Columbia University, 16–17, 19, 46, 163–5 Audubon, J.J., 37 brachiopods, 286 condors, 189 ‘Aurora’, 104, 122–3, 251 ‘Bradgatia – partial reconstruction, ConocoPhillips, 257, 286 Ausia, 207, 209 Newfoundland’, 224 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas ausktribosphenids, 249, 251, 290 Brodkorb, P., 16 y Técnicas (CONICET), 193 Ausktribosphenos, 248 Brown, L. (Capability), 129 Constantine, A., 188, 204 ‘Ausktribosphenos nyktos – mandible’, 233 browsing kangaroo, 59 continental drift, 164 Australasian avifauna, 164 bryozoans, 286 Cooper, R., 149–50 Australia, 120, 124–5, 169, 184, 186, 201, Buenos Aires, 193 cormorant, 51–2, 53, 60 213–14, 216, 220, 225, 230, 252–3, Bullock Creek, 148, 168–9, 174 Corriebaatar marywaltersae, 243, 246 257, 289 Bullockornis planei, 166 Couzens, J., 66 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-16299-9 - The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life Peter Trusler, Patricia Vickers-Rich and Thomas H. Rich Index More information INDEX 305 cranes, 148 Ektopodon, 59 Gomez, E., 183 Crapp, A., 262 elephant birds, 148 Gondwana, 97, 188, 193, 250 ‘Creatures of the slime’, 198, 206, 257, 265 Emeriza impetuani, 228 ‘Gondwanan Triassic fauna’, 55 Cretaceous mammals, 67 emus, 148, 151, 169 Gould, J., 34 crevasse splay deposit, 111 enantiornithines, 144, 145 Grazhdankin, D., 201 crinoids, 286 Eocene, 54 Great Barrier Reef, 99 crocodiles, 80, 285 ‘Eocene Messel fauna, Germany’, 57 ‘Great Russian Dinosaurs’, 21, 82–3, 120, Crompton, A.W., 236 Eomanis, 57 200–2, 256 cryptic patterns, 91 Ernanodon, 56 Greening of Gondwana, 81 CSIRO (Commonwealth Science and Industrial Erxleben, J., 38 Gregory, J.W., 162–3 Research Organisation), 51 eupantotheres, 244 Grey, K., 203 cultural interaction, 68–9 Eurotamandua, 57 Griphognathus whitei, 98, 99, 102 Cuneo, R., 182–3, 188, 193 Evans, G., 83, 200 gypaetines, 163, 164 Ewing, M., 17 Dabis Formation, 228 hadrosaurs, 116 Darragh, T., 24–6 Fahey, S., 263 Haeckel, E., 37 darters, 52 Fan, J., 67 Haig, D., 285 Darvall, P., 201–2 feathers, 92, 144, 155, 156 Hall, B., 70, 86, 88 Darwin, C., 182 Fedonkin, M., 21, 200, 201, 202–3, 204, 205, Hambleton, R., 257 Darwin (NT), 172 206, 207, 209, 211, 213, 230 Hambleton Ruff group, 257 Davies, T., 67 Fenton, C.L., 48, 49, 54 Hamilton, K., 202, 257 Dickinsonia, 290 Fenton, M., 46, 48, 49, 54, 56 Happy Birthday Old Timer, 288 Dili, 285, 288 Ferguson, W.H., 107, 117 Hasegawa, Y., 202 Dinornis, 154 Fernandez Estancia (Chubut Province), 184–5 Hecht, M., 86 dinosaur art, 4, 129 Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, 261 Heezen, B., 17 Dinosaur Cove, 12, 109–11, 116–17, 126, 184, Filmer-Sanky, P., 153 ‘Hell’s Dinos’, 289 283, 290 finite element analysis, 30,31 herbivorous dinosaurs, 133 dinosaurs, 74, 182, 188, 200, 256–7, 264, 270 Fitzroya cupressoides, 189, 190, 191 Herman, J., 110 animation of, 74 flamingo,60 Hernianax papuensis, 141 ‘Dinosaurs from China’, 21, 48, 62, 65, 67, 70, Flannery, T., 20, 27, 37, 106, 109, 120 hibernation, 123 71, 75, 109 Flat Rocks, 116, 117, 248 Hildebrand, M., 163 Dinosaurs of Darkness, 104, 122, 289, 290 flightlessness (birds), 92 Hillary, E., 78 Diprotodon optatum, 2, 22, 24, 25–7, 27, 28, Flinders Ranges, 203, 206, 214, 216, 217, Hine, K., 25 29–30, 31, 33, 36, 39, 41, 42, 43, 250, 220, 221 Hoban, M., 260–1 258–9, 261–2, 275, 276, 279, 280, 294 Flinders University, 261–2 Hoffmann, C., 204, 214 diprotodontid track-way, 261, 276, 280 Fordyce, E., 152 holdfast, 219 draftsmanship, 39 Fortey, R., 5 Hunt, N., 206 Dromornis stirtoni, 160, 166–7, 169, 172, fossil analysis, computer techniques, 30 174–7, 173–5, 177 Fractofusus, 214 ichthyosaur, 292, 296 dromornithids, 16, 18, 79, 84, 148, 165, 167, freshwater fish, 144 ‘Ilbandornis’ lawsoni, 166 169 Friedrich, C.D., 129 ilkaite, 108 footprints, 79, 261 Friends of the National Museum, 110 insects, 138, 144 palate, 148 From Small Things Big Things Grow, 67 Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and drop soil structure, 109 Paleoanthropology (IVPP), 47–8, 64–5, 67, Droser, M., 214, 220 Galapagos Islands, 16, 163 71, 234 DSDP (Deep Sea Drilling Project), 17 Gallimimus bullatus, 120 International Geological Correlation Program duck-billed dinosaurs, 116 gastroliths, 51, 52 (IGCP), 493, 205, 260 Dürer, A., 37 Gehling, J., 21, 203, 205, 206, 214, 216, 220, Inverloch, 106, 108 du Toit, 50, 164 260 Iron Curtain, 200 Gelt, D., 203, 290 Ivantsov, A., 213, 230 Eagle’s Nest (Vic.), 106, 107 Genyornis newtoni, 80, 81, 84, 85, 87, 88–9, ‘Early Miocene lake fauna of central Australia’, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94–5, 96–7, 166, 168, 168, Japan, 64, 106, 138, 206 60 170–1, 258–9 ‘Japanese Giant Salamander’, 139, 140 Eastmanosteus calliaspis, 98, 99, 102–3 giant salamander, 106, 138 jellyfish, 225 echidna, 117, 235 ginkgo, 144 Jensen, S., 203 ecocline, 172 Glenie, R., 106 Jurassic, 180, 194 ‘Ediacara’, 221 Glossopteris, 50 Jurassic Park, 83, 193, 256, 295 Ediacarans, 199, 205, 206, 207, 208, 216, goanna, 80, 85 217, 219, 224–5, 230, 257, 290 Gogo, 97–8 Kadimakara, 52, 168 frond-like organisms, 219, 225 Gogo nodule, 97 kangaroo, short-faced, see Procoptodon goliah education in science, 9 ‘Gogo reef reconstruction’, 99, 102 Keep, M., 285 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-16299-9 - The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life Peter Trusler, Patricia Vickers-Rich and Thomas H. 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    Samuels et al. Evolution of the patellar sesamoid bone in mammals SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Tables, Figures and References Supplementary Table S1: Mammals$ Higher taxa Genus sp. Estimated. age of Patellar Comments# (partial) specimen, location state 0/1/2 (absent/ ‘patelloid’/ present) Sinoconodonta Sinoconodon Jurassic 0 Patellar groove absent, suggests no rigneyi (Kielan- patella Jaworowska, Cifelli & Luo, Sinoconodon is included on our 2004) phylogeny within tritylodontids. Morganucodonta Megazostrodon Late Triassic, southern 0 rudnerae (Jenkins Africa & Parrington, 1976) Morganucodonta Eozostrodon sp. Late Triassic, Wales 0 Asymmetric patellar groove, (Jenkins et al., specimens disarticulated so it is hard 1976) to assess the patella but appears absent Docodonta Castorocauda 164 Mya, mid-Jurassic, 0 Semi-aquatic adaptations lutrasimilis (Ji, China Luo, Yuan et al., 2006) Docodonta Agilodocodon 164 Mya, mid-Jurassic, 0 scansorius China (Meng, Ji, Zhang et al., 2015) Docodonta Docofossor 160 Mya 0 brachydactylus (Luo, Meng, Ji et al., 2015) Docodonta Haldanodon 150-155 Mya, Late 0 Shallow patellar groove exspectatus Jurassic, Portugal (Martin, 2005b) Australosphenida Asfaltomylos Mid-Jurassic, South ? Postcranial material absent patagonicus America (Martin, 2005a) Australosphenida Ornithorhynchus Extant 2 Platypus, genome sequenced Monotremata anatinus (Warren, Hillier, Marshall Graves et (Herzmark, 1938; al., 2008) Rowe, 1988) Samuels et al. Australosphenida Tachyglossus + Extant 2 Echidnas Monotremata Zaglossus spp. (Herzmark, 1938; Rowe, 1988) Mammaliaformes Fruitafossor 150 Mya, Late Jurassic, 0 Phylogenetic status uncertain indet. windscheffeli (Luo Colorado & Wible, 2005) Mammaliaformes Volaticotherium Late Jurassic/Early ? Hindlimb material incomplete indet. antiquus (Meng, Cretaceous Hu, Wang et al., 2006) Eutriconodonta Jeholodens 120-125 Mya, Early 0 Poorly developed patellar groove jenkinsi (Ji, Luo Cretaceous, China & Ji, 1999) Eutriconodonta Gobiconodon spp.
  • Messel Pit – Wikipedia Germany

    Messel Pit – Wikipedia Germany

    03/08/2018 Messel pit - Wikipedia Coordinates: 49°55′03″N 8°45′24″E Messel pit The Messel Pit (German: Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the Messel Pit Fossil Site village of Messel, (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about 35 km (22 mi) southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bituminous shale UNESCO World Heritage site was mined there. Because of its abundance of fossils, it has significant geological and scientific importance. After almost becoming a landfill, strong local resistance eventually stopped these plans and the Messel Pit was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site on 9 December 1995. Significant scientific discoveries are still being made and the site has increasingly become a tourist site as well. Contents Location Darmstadt-Dieburg, History Hesse, Germany Depositional characteristics Criteria Natural: (viii) Volcanic gas releases Reference 720bis (http://whc.unesco. Fossils org/en/list/720bis) Mammals Inscription 1995 (19th Session) Birds Reptiles Extensions 2010 Fish Area 42 ha (4,500,000 sq ft) Insects Plants Buffer zone 22.5 ha (2,420,000 sq ft) Access Coordinates 49°55′03″N 8°45′24″E See also References External links History Brown coal and later oil shale was actively mined from 1859. The pit first became known for its wealth of fossils around 1900, but serious scientific excavation only started around the 1970s, when falling oil prices made the quarry uneconomical. Commercial oil shale mining ceased in 1971 and a cement factory built in the quarry failed the following year. The land was slotted for use as a landfill, but the plans came to nought and the Hessian state bought the site in 1991 to secure scientific access.